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Weekly Report - 27 October 2011 (WR-11-43)
COLOMBIA: Violence casts shadow over regional elections
Colombians go to the polls to vote in regional elections on 30 October amid mounting public security concerns. At least 20 soldiers were killed in the space of 48 hours in two separate attacks by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) in the departments of Arauca and Nariño, bordering Venezuela and Ecuador respectively. This emphatic demonstration that the Farc does not intend to follow the lead of Spain’s Basque separatist group ETA and renounce the armed struggle was coupled by the release of two reports by influential NGOs claiming that illegal armed groups posed a far greater risk of violence, and influence, on Sunday than the previous regional elections in 2007.
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